Buckle.



No. 886,029. I V PATENT ED APR. '28, 1908.

P. I. ANDREWS.

BUGKLE.

A?PLI(JA-T IOH FILED 001.3, 1907.

' of Mel no, have invented certain new an i. atlain. this object by me of the conproper is the other arm, said extension ar struction herein described, and shown in. t e being at an angle with the plane inwhich lies drawings. forming a part ol' this specification, the tongue and its pivotal axis; whereby oF which pressure upon said extension bar toward tongue thrust through one of holes pro- UNITED s'rar f srn'rnnr OFFICE.

l. ANDREWS, OF KENNEB'UNK, MAINE PA U L BUCKLE No. 886,029. specificatiori o fzellters Patent. Patented April 28, 1908. Application filed Detoh er r907. Serilil No. 69l5$06l To all vii/mm it mo/g concern: shown in Fig. 3, the pressure upon. the'bar,

Be it known that 1, PAUL I. Annn'nws, of heniiebunk, in the county of Y ork and State F, depresses the strap as 1 battle shown the tongue,

1t and lifts the tongue free from shown in Fig. 3.

D, D, as pivoted lul improvements .in Buckles, of which the l abo'tfilbar, B; of course, this bar, B,'niight be *i'oilowing is a specification. 1 ivoted 1n the side bars,-A, A and the tongue and its extensionrnade solid with it and still.

be within the scope of my invention.

1 claim: 7 1. In a buckle, a frame, a tongue pivoted to one part thereof and overlapping another part, an extension bar rigidl connected My invention. relates to buckles of the class in which each contains a tongue which serves to 'llOld a strap by insertion in a hole in the .ejune. l The object ol my invention is to relieve the di ziiirnlty, l'rm ucntly occurring, of withdrawiiig tl e tongue from the strap when there iswith the said tongue and extending away strain upon it, especially in the case from it beyond its pivotal axis, so as to form ol' a t .k heavy strap. one arm of a lever, of which the tongue Figure 1 is a side elevation of the buckle said plane tends to raise the point of the with the strap attached in a fastened positongue from its normal position in contact ti n;'-Fig. 2-, a perspeo ye view of the nakec. with the frame; in combination with a strap oi. flexible material inclosing the said ex tension of the tongue and that part oi said. frame which constitutes the pivotal axis about which the tongue is movable, whereby tension upon said strap in a direction away from the buckle tends to press down the ton ueextension and raise the opposite end.

buckle; Fig. 3, an elevation of the buckle ailh strap attached in an untastened position.

liilu: figures cl retermice refer to same parts in all the drawings.

T he buckle is composed of the usual frame, consistingolt the side bars, A, A, and ends,

-.and C. The tongue, D, is shown as pivote of t e tongue, arranged. and to operate sub-' about the end bar, B, and it reaches to the stantially as herein set forth.

other end, C, so to rest upon it when 2. In a buckle, a frame, a tongue pivoted pressed down. It has an extension, E", to one of its ends and overlapping its opbeyond the bar, B, at an obtuseangle with osite end, and an extension of said tongue the plane in which lies the frame, and rises beyond the end of the frame to which it is from the same on the side on which l es the tongue. The end of this extension is prefer.- ably enlarged. to form a cross ar, F, .whicli may be of a'length approximately equal to pivoted and when thepoint of said tongue is in contact with the frame rising upward above the plane in which lies the frame, i combination with a strap oi" flexible material around the end of said frame the width of the strap for which the buckle is adapted. tongue is pivoted, iiiclosing the said extenln using the buckle, the strap, G, shown in sion of the tongue, and fastened to itself so as forth.

inclosing the extension, V

to itselt shown.

fastened he buckled theretongue,

eted or otherwise The end of the strap, ll, to

the, stantially as herein set ntestimony 'whereo to, is passed through the frame and for the same. signature, in presence of two witnesses.

the.

vidcd When there is tension ld. fast down upon the straps tongue-is l 1 1. '1 upon the-bar, C, and-the bar, F, is forced. np-

, PAUL- D ward against the part of the straq, G, lying Witnesses:

above it. When it lSKlBSlIGCl gllBO oosen the Am A. RICHARDSON,

and it is drawn tatlie position towhich the t1 have affixed my 

